Around the
world, people of Macedonian descent and
non-Macedonians who care about NATO's assault on the
Balkans have rallied to defend Macedonia. Below are
excerpts from a statement by Australian-Macedonians
issued a few weeks ago, when thousands rallied in
Sydney. It challenges the cynical use, by Washington
and its Euro-allies, of phony slogans evoking
'minority rights' to cloak neo-colonial expansion. If
self-determination means anything, it means: don't
let big powers turn target nations into atomized,
'racially pure' territorial protectorates, under big
power domination. - Jared Israel.

[Thousands of]
Macedonian Australians rallied against NATO and European
Union facilitation of terrorist aggression against
Macedonia and the rise of Albanian fascism in the
Balkans. The
rally took place on Sunday July 8, 2001, beginning at
1.00pm, in front of the US consulate in Sydney (Martin
Place).Below
are excerpts from a statement by Australian-Macedonians
issued a few weeks

The
international community must recognize that Macedonia is
not battling a liberation army, but
neo-fascist criminals and terrorists, being the
self-proclaimed heirs of the notorious WWII nazi collaborators,
known as Balisti.They are
fanatically committed to an ethnically pure Greater
Albania and to violent means of achieving it. Their
fundamentalism does not allow for compromise...

Macedonias
democracy and multiculturalism have only been undermined
by excessive concessions to
extremist Albanian demands, which are not granted
to ethnic minorities in any member-state of NATO or the
European Union...

We urge NATO
and the EU, as well as the Australian government, to
support an immediate and uncompromising elimination of
terrorist forces in Macedonia.The Macedonian government, NATO and the
EU must stop legitimizing the hate-politics of Albanian
nationalists, before reactive inter-ethnic hatred
escalates to irreversible levels. NATO and the EU must
reverse their message that racist violence pays.

Macedonian
Australians also take this opportunity to condemn those
media outlets, public figures and bogus human
rights organizations who collaborate with Albanian
and other anti-Macedonian nationalists to suppress the
indigenous Macedonian ethnic identity, through use of the
racist slur Slav, with arrogant disregard
for the basic human right to self-identification.